Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01
LAKE COUNTY.
A Hill Country-stook Raising and sum.
mer Resorts.

A Hill Country-Stook Raising and SUM
mer Resorts.
Lake county is part of the coast range
region. 1t lies south and west of Colusa
and Mendocino, north of Napa and east of
Sonoma and Mendocino. 1t has 100
square miles, of which 1000 are coast
mountains and 100 valley. Yet when we
say coast mountains, the Eastern reader
must remember that does not mean, of ne
cessity, overlooking the ocean. Between
the Lake county hills and the ocean lie two
OF the largest counties OF the State and two
ranges of mountains. But all the hills
west of the Sacramento valley are of the
great coast range conformation. In Lake
county are really two
BRANCHES OF THE RANGE
Uniting at Mount ST. Johns on the north,
and having an altitude of from 5000 to
1000 feet. These form a valley about 40
miles long and 10 miles wide, the sides Of
which, says Prof. Hilgard, are bordered by
narrow ridges of broken mountains sepa-
rated by deep gorges and narrow canyons,
covered with timber, underbrush, wild oats
and wild grapes. Clear Lake in this county
is one of the loveliest sheets of water in
the world. 1t is 1000 feet above the sea
level, covers nearly one-third of the valley,
is % miles long, and varies in width from
two to ten miles, being divided into what
is known as Upper and Lower Lakes by
Uncle Sam mountain.
THIS SPLENDID SHEET OF NAvIGABLE WATER
Receives the chief drainage of the county
and discharges through Cache creek into
the Yolo basin on the east. The hills are
timbered with pine, sugar pine in large
lov II,
brush (chemisal) is found to be exceed
ingly valuable for sheep, which are herded
in this county in vast numbers. In the
central valley region is the farming section,
west of the lake and among the hills along
the streams. On the east Of the lake is
also much alluvial land, very rich in yield
TO tillage. There is large number of rich
small valleys in this county that have from
alluvial loan to red sandy and gravelly
and sandy loan. Potatoes, corn and wheat
are extensively grown. In SCOTS valley,
for instance, eight tons of potatoes, thirty
bushels of wheat and fifty bushels of corn
TO the acre are yielded. Grape growing in
this county is coming into great prOmi-
nepce, and promises to be a chief in
dustry. Great numbers of
MINERAL SPRINGS
Make the county noted, and nearly
hotels and cottages, bathing advantages,
etc. The scenery OF the county is magnifi-
cent; in some respects, more charming and
varied than in any ether section. The eli
mate is unsurpassed for salubrity and
health-giving qualities. The summer heat
is of high temperature, with uniformly
cool nights and mitigating breezes. The
attitudes, the pure water, the aroma of the
resinous woods the clear skies, the lovely
lakes, all combine TO make it sanitarium
of the rarest and best qualities. The rain
fall is plentiful, drought is an unknown
quantity, and bountiful production is just
as certain as the rising of the sun. There
is room and invitation in Lake county for
a large immigration, and to home-seekers it
presents many and strong claims. Three
lines of railway are now pushing into the
county. Its chief towns, Lakeport and
Upper Lake, are thriving, busy market
towns, and rapidly growing.